The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau later in 1994 and has been responsible for the conference series ever since. Except for 1994 and 1995 when two conferences were held each year, WWWn became an annual event held in late April or early May. The location of the conference rotates among North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2001 the conference designator changed from a number (1 through 10) to the year it is held; i.e., WWW11 became known as WWW2002, and so on.

The WWW Conference series aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.

The conferences are organized by the IW3C2 in collaboration with Local Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review.

Hosts: North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The WWW2010 logo incorporates the three W’s in an oak leaf to celebrate the host city, Raleigh, known as the “City of Oaks.” The logo also suggests the “Green” environmentally-friendly initiatives central to the area, the time and the event.

First time the conference was held in mainland China. More than 800 papers were submitted for review and only 103 were chosen. To address important emerging areas of interest, WWW2008 introduced three new tracks: Social Networks and Web 2.0, Rich Media, and Internet Monetization.

Received 506 submissions to the referred paper track the second-highest submissions ever. We accepted 74 papers for the proceedings and presentation at the conference, which translates into an acceptance rate of 14.6%.

Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, et al.

The 257 authors of the accepted refereed papers came from six continents and 20 countries, making WWW10 a truly international conference. 146 of the authors were from academia; 111 were from industry. The distribution of authors among continents was: Africa 3, Asia 32, South America 4, Europe 61, Australia 6, North America 151.

To mark the passing of the first ten years, a special space was dedicated to collecting material on Web history. Participants were invited to bring anything they knew or owned that celebrated the first ten years of the WWW conferences.

The design for the April 1997 conference in Santa Clara, California, retained traditional verdant tones in the Ws, but interpreted them anew with a warm neo-Mediterranean cast reflecting the heritage of the Golden State. The dimensionality suggested by all of the previous conference logos is here given a California twist, rendered in a triangular shape which, when animated, makes the faces of all three Ws equally accessible.

The three days in Geneva were attended by 380 participants from all over the world. The first logo, developed by Robert Cailliau showed three Ws emerging from a deep forest green to a brilliant proximate white.